mercoledì 19 settembre 2012

Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam video.

Raja Pervez Ashraf, Pakistan's prime minister, has ordered YouTube to
be blocked after the site "refused to heed to the advice of the
government of Pakistan to remove blasphemous film from its site", a
statement from his office said.

Attempts to access YouTube on
Monday met with a message saying the website had been classed as
containing "indecent material" and was blocked on the orders of the
Pakistan Telecom Authority.

Authorities in Bangladesh have also
blocked the video-sharing site indefinitely to prevent citizens from
watching the video that mocks the Prophet and Islam.

Protests
against the anti-Islam video continued on Monday, several of them
violent, in various countries across the Muslim world.

Protests were also reported from Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Yemen and Lebanon.

In
Kabul and Jakarta, protests turned violent for the first time since the
furore over the film mocking Islam first broke out last week. Hundreds
of angry men clashed with police, hurled stones and shouted "Death to
America".

Thousands of followers of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group rallied
against the anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in
Muslim countries worldwide, as Hassan Nasrallah delivered his first
major public address in four years.

Most of the men tied headbands
around their foreheads in green and yellow - the colours of Hezbollah -
with the words "at your service God's prophet" written on them.

Meanwhile,
more than 1,000 Tunisian security forces briefly surrounded a mosque in
the capital on Monday where a Salafi leader wanted by police over
clashes at the US embassy last week was meeting hundreds of followers.